{"id":315740,"date":"2026-03-06T09:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/315740\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T09:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:05:08","slug":"celebrities-confirmed-for-z-manu-grand-final-at-aucklands-viaduct-harbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/315740\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrities confirmed for Z Manu Grand Final at Auckland\u2019s Viaduct Harbour"},"content":{"rendered":"

The famous faces division is being held in aid of Water Safety New Zealand, with donations from each celeb matched to their splash height.<\/p>\n

\"PiriPiri Weepu will feature in the famous faces division of the Z Manu World Champs this year. Photo \/ Zach Quin<\/p>\n

The final round of qualifiers for a spot in the Grand Final takes place this weekend on Auckland\u2019s Viaduct Harbour, with the full field of 135 finalists across all divisions to be set at the end of this weekend.<\/p>\n

The final will be in the same location on March 14, with more than $40,000 in cash and prizes up for grabs. <\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice Minister Mark Mitchell unofficially took part in the world champs last year. Photo \/ Zach Quin<\/p>\n

Event director Scott Rice said more than 2000 people have taken part in the competition so far from across New Zealand and Australia. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Manu is a great Kiwi pastime that brings together so many parts of the community \u2013 celebrities, kids, grandparents, professional athletes and first-time wildcards,\u201d Rice said. <\/p>\n

\"MarkMark Mitchell will step up to take part officially in this year’s Z Manu World Champs famous faces division. Photo \/ Zach Quin<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what it\u2019s all about. We\u2019re looking forward to a great day on the water, fittingly as part of Moana Auckland \u2013 New Zealand\u2019s Ocean Festival.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"LastLast year’s adult male winner Maara Toa is back to defend his title. Photo \/ Zach Quin<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s adult male winner<\/a>, Maara Toa, took part in last weekend\u2019s super qualifier in Auckland and will return to the Grand Final to defend his title. <\/p>\n

The Northlander practised manu dive bombs for six days to deliver record-breaking splash heights of over 10 metres and was awarded perfect-10 scores in the 2025 edition. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The famous faces division is being held in aid of Water Safety New Zealand, with donations from each…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[696,12642,1975,3952,1558,430,5759,39789,2223,156,6119,1444,5904,2082,10813,20589,305,48955,111,139,69,42916,377],"class_list":["post-315740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-announced","tag-appear","tag-at","tag-aucklands","tag-been","tag-celebrities","tag-championships","tag-compete","tag-confirmed","tag-entertainment","tag-faces","tag-famous","tag-final","tag-for","tag-grand","tag-harbour","tag-have","tag-manu","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-viaduct","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}